Snippets from Jen’s world:

Today an interview I did with Adele is being featured on her review blog, Unbound.  Check it out here!

Hubby is doing Parent-Teacher conferences today and tomorrow.  His weird working hours allow us to hang out in the morning.  Somewhat bizarre, considering it’s not the weekend, but fun all the same.  We sleep in, have a nice breakfast and watch Steven Wright’s new special.  Hilarious!

My morning run, having been moved to noon, is much warmer than usual.  No need for a hat or gloves today, though the IPod is still a must.  I wonder if anybody ever writes a song realizing that their kickin’ beat is a major help in getting some people to the end of that second mile!

I’m working on the final, climactic scene of Bite Marks.  As usual, I’ve been procrastinating, because finishing means my baby is no longer in the pamper-and-spoil stage.  As soon as I’m done, the next several weeks will be spent making cruel cuts, doing major rewrites that’ll crunch it into ‘real book’ shape, which is the only way I’d let my editor see it in.  (No cold cream and curlers for Devi, just solid material she can give me great ideas to improve.) 

I’ll need all the editing time I can get, because I’ve thought of a couple of cool additions I need to make to the plot, character development is still rough, the humor is hit and miss, and I have to make sure some of my more funky ideas are well enough explained that every reader will understand where I’m going with them.  So finishing soon is a major good idea, and I’m hoping to be done with the first draft by next week.

Tonight I’ll watch the newest episode of Supernatural and wait up for my kid’s return from a school trip to St. Louis.  Hope he’s full of interesting stories, but here’s how I figure the conversation will go.

Me:  “How was your trip?”

Him:  “Meh.”

Oh yeah, I nearly forgot to let you know the story on Bergman.  As many of you suspected, he does not have a tattoo.  He’s too worried about what might be delivered via needle.  Not just diseases, but maybe a mind-bending drug that would force him to give up his secrets.  As for some sort of imbedded item that he could implant himself . . . I’m still waiting to hear.  Yeah, Bergman’s pretty close-mouthed, even around me!

So here’s my question(s) for you.  Can you imagine, at any time in your life, allowing someone to surgically implant a computer chip in your body?  If so, under what circumstances would that be okay?  Or why would you never, ever consider it?